Fast Max owner wants to develop adjacent property

Fast Max owner wants to develop 78 acres of adjacent property

5:30 AM,
Sep. 22, 2013

Ron Guthrie, a Ruby Haulage employee, works Monday on a five-acre plot that will be home to Farm Credit Mid-America near the intersection of Ohio 256 and Ohio 37. Mike Wagner, the owner of the 78 acres of property, is planning to develop the land across from Fast Max.

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Mike Wagner and his wife, Darlene Wagner, bought 78 acres of land across from their Fast Max complex at Ohio 256 and Ohio 37 about six years to make a little money and prevent a competitor from opening a business similar to theirs.

However, they still are trying to sell the property for commercial development.

"I kind of thought we'd be further ahead than this," Mike Wagner said. "Of course, the economy crashed. But it's starting to improve a little bit now and we think our chances are pretty good." ...